Environmental risks and hazards

Contributor(s): Cutter, Susan L. (Editor)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, ©1994Description: xvi, 413 p. : illustrations, mapsISBN: 8120315049; 9788120315044 ; 0137538561 ; 9780137538560Subject(s): Environmental risk assessment | Environmental issuesDDC classification: 363.7
Contents:
Preface. Isn't any place safe anymore? / Susan L. Cutter -- Part I. Beginnings. Natural hazards research / Gilbert F. White -- Disaster studies: an analysis of the social historical factors affecting the development of research in the area / E.L. Quarantelli -- Risk analysis and risk management: an historical perspective / Vincent T. Covello and Jeryl Mumpower -- Social benefit versus technological risk / Chauncey Starr -- Paths to risk analysis / Gilbert F. White -- Part II. Theoretical innovations. Natural hazard in human ecological perspective: hypotheses and models / Robert W. Kates -- Taking the naturalness out of natural disasters / Phil O'Keefe, Ken Westgate, and Ben Wisner -- A contextual model of natural hazard / James K. Mitchell, Neal Devine, and Kathleen Jagger -- The social amplification of risk: a conceptual framework / roger e. Kasperson, Ortwin Renn, Paul Slovic, Halina S. Brown, Jacque Emel, Robert Goble, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Samuel Ratick -- Bringing social theory to hazards research / William C. Bogard -- En-gendered fears: femininity and technological risk perception / Susan L. Cutter, John Tiefenbacher, and William D. Solecki -- Part III. Responding to threats. Perception of risk / Paul Slovic -- Theories of risk perception: who fears what and why? / Aaron Wildavsky and Karl Dake -- Human adjustment to the risk of environmental extremes / Dennis S. Mileti -- Public response to earthquake hazard information / Risa I. Palm -- Evacuation decision-making in natural disasters / Ronald W. Perry -- Evacuation behavior in response to nuclear power plant accidents / Donald J. Ziegler and James H. Johnson, Jr. Part IV. Improving management. Risk assessment and comparisons: an introduction / Richard Wilson and E.A.C. Crouch -- Perceived risk, real risk: social science and the art of probabi9listic risk assessment / William r. Freudenburg -- Science and its limits: the regulator's dilemma / Alvin M. Weinberg -- Risk assessment and regulatory priorities / Lester B. Lave -- Success, strain, and surprise / Robert W. Kates -- Part V. Emerging and recurring issues. The chronic technical disaster: toward a social scientific perspective / Stephen R. Couch and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith -- Health effects of environmental chemicals / Michael R. Greenberg -- Emergency planning for chemical agent releases / George O. Rogers, John H. Sorenson, John F. Long, Jr., and Denzel Fisher -- Vulnerability to global environmental change / Diana M. Liverman -- Chasing a specter: risk management for global environmental change / Timothy O'Riordan and Steve Rayner -- The social space of terror: towards a civil interpretation of total war / Kenneth Hewitt -- The dignity of risk / Julian Wolpert.
Summary: A collection of seminal works in the field of environmental hazards. This title integrates various social science perspectives - hazards (geography), disasters (sociology), and risk (economics, psychology) - and features articles selected for their views on the acceptability of risks and hazards and the social choices made as to their management.
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Preface. Isn't any place safe anymore? / Susan L. Cutter --
Part I. Beginnings. Natural hazards research / Gilbert F. White --
Disaster studies: an analysis of the social historical factors affecting the development of research in the area / E.L. Quarantelli --
Risk analysis and risk management: an historical perspective / Vincent T. Covello and Jeryl Mumpower --
Social benefit versus technological risk / Chauncey Starr --
Paths to risk analysis / Gilbert F. White --
Part II. Theoretical innovations. Natural hazard in human ecological perspective: hypotheses and models / Robert W. Kates --
Taking the naturalness out of natural disasters / Phil O'Keefe, Ken Westgate, and Ben Wisner --
A contextual model of natural hazard / James K. Mitchell, Neal Devine, and Kathleen Jagger --
The social amplification of risk: a conceptual framework / roger e. Kasperson, Ortwin Renn, Paul Slovic, Halina S. Brown, Jacque Emel, Robert Goble, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Samuel Ratick --
Bringing social theory to hazards research / William C. Bogard --
En-gendered fears: femininity and technological risk perception / Susan L. Cutter, John Tiefenbacher, and William D. Solecki --
Part III. Responding to threats. Perception of risk / Paul Slovic --
Theories of risk perception: who fears what and why? / Aaron Wildavsky and Karl Dake --
Human adjustment to the risk of environmental extremes / Dennis S. Mileti --
Public response to earthquake hazard information / Risa I. Palm --
Evacuation decision-making in natural disasters / Ronald W. Perry --
Evacuation behavior in response to nuclear power plant accidents / Donald J. Ziegler and James H. Johnson, Jr. Part IV. Improving management. Risk assessment and comparisons: an introduction / Richard Wilson and E.A.C. Crouch --
Perceived risk, real risk: social science and the art of probabi9listic risk assessment / William r. Freudenburg --
Science and its limits: the regulator's dilemma / Alvin M. Weinberg --
Risk assessment and regulatory priorities / Lester B. Lave --
Success, strain, and surprise / Robert W. Kates --
Part V. Emerging and recurring issues. The chronic technical disaster: toward a social scientific perspective / Stephen R. Couch and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith --
Health effects of environmental chemicals / Michael R. Greenberg --
Emergency planning for chemical agent releases / George O. Rogers, John H. Sorenson, John F. Long, Jr., and Denzel Fisher --
Vulnerability to global environmental change / Diana M. Liverman --
Chasing a specter: risk management for global environmental change / Timothy O'Riordan and Steve Rayner --
The social space of terror: towards a civil interpretation of total war / Kenneth Hewitt --
The dignity of risk / Julian Wolpert.

A collection of seminal works in the field of environmental hazards. This title integrates various social science perspectives - hazards (geography), disasters (sociology), and risk (economics, psychology) - and features articles selected for their views on the acceptability of risks and hazards and the social choices made as to their management.

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